Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-09-10
LIFE AT LONG BRANCH.
A DAYS DoINes AT THE FASH
 IoNABLE SEASIDE RESORT.
Going to the Early Train-Lawn Tennis and Horseback Riding-Bathing Begins at il o'Clock-Afternoon Drivine-Din- ner and the Evening Hours.

and H0rseback h1dlng-batnAng OeSins
 at il o'Clock-Afternoon Drivine-Din-
 ner and the Evening Hours.
 People who live in Rome would find 1t difficult to pass the day as they would in Paris, and New Yorker in Florence cannot live day as he would in his own metropolis. Neither can man, with all his victories over nature, pass day in the Alps as he would on the banks of the Amazon. And so man cannot carry out 8 day at Long Branch as he would at White Sulphur Springs. He does at Long Branch what the place permits him to do. Generally speaking, the summer popula- tion is up at o'clock, because the great majority of the men go to New York every day to attend to business and they start at about s.
 Going to the train is the first business of the day, and a pretty sight it is to see the ladies in their fresh, white, morning gowns, driving their carts and phaetons down to the station with their husbands. The harness and horses and carriages, fresh from the hands of industrious grOomS and coachmen, and unspotted as yet by l the dust of the day, glisten under the early morning sun. The air is cool and invig- | orating, and the hustle and confusion l about the station has & fashionable pie | turesqueness about it that is charming to the student of society. After the busi
 nSss of the morning exodus is done, lawn
 tennis comes to enliven the day. The
 game is exceedingly popular at Long | Branch, where the fine lawns, of which
 have spoken, furnish admirable courts. | About o'clock in the morning you will
 see young men in white flannels and
 young ladies in loose gowns running about
 on the smooth turf, and entering into the game with an earnestness which fully
 atones for any lack of skill. Besides ten
 his, horseback riding claims attention.
 The roads at the Branch are ex-
 cellent for this exercise, and scores
 of equestrians may be seen every day
 taking a morning canter. Many of the
 ladies choose this part of the day to do
 their shopping, and East Long Branch is
 made very lively.
 About Il o'clock bathing begins to rise
 above the horizon. At the hotels the GUS.
 tomary time for bathing is at low tide,
 but as the water is seldom so high or SC
 rough in the summer that people cannot
 bathe at all hours, most of them select ths
 .orning for their dip. The refreshing in
 fiuence of the bath prepares one to pass
 with equanimity, the warm hours of tn.
 early afternoon, before the sea breeze
 springs up. At some of the hotels thu bands give morning concerts at eleven
 and those ladies who prefer to devote thei ) afternoons to bathing, sit in the par1ors listen to the music, and put forth 6 con t tinuous flow of small talk. After Luncheon !, most people at the Branch take the da, |, lelsurely until o'clock. The afternoon driving then begins and continues unti , about 6:30. The scene on Ocean avenu at this time of the day is most animate | 1-.- = E that1csrriages are compelled to procee cautiously in order to avoid collisions
 The evening trains from New Tor : and Philadelphia come in and carriage s are dashing to and from the stations v while the hotel stages lumber alon
 laden with incoming guests. The stean boat lands at the pier, and there is gres ! rushing from all points of excursfonist who have conc down from New York fo
 the day and are eager to get seats for th :, return trip. Sailing vessels cf all kind e are seen gliding along up and down tl e coast, and southern steamers pass by, gel y erally running close in shore, dippin n their flags, blowing their whistles an
 firing their guns. The men who ha, n been all day in the steaming hot city rus o down to the beach, don their bathin V suits, and plunge into the surf. IT
 AAAAlNi with the handsome costumes of ladies, u 's glitter of mounted harnsGksand the das e of polished wheels.
 By and by, as the dinner hour a
 breaches, the hustle and confusion d
 away, or rather, transfer themselves
 the hotel dining rooms, where the eveniI dinner is attended to in manner whit II shows that the sea air is truly provocati as of hunger. The evenings are usual sr passed in dancing, or looking at oth a people dance. The hotel bands play in u d parlors every night, and when it is not t Id warm, waltzing is indulged in to m great extent. Saturday evening is t ,e fashionable night, when people from t ,t cottages go to the hotels to dance, al ,'I i some little show of dressing is made. . iu 8 general thing, however, people do I 'it dress especially for the dancing, and fl It. evening attire is the exception. The m ey who spend the day at business do not f h. it incumbent upon them to put on tn is- dress suits for the evening, and the lad he are, therefore, compelled to permit th' ,s. to dance in business costume, if they n, desire.-W. F. Henderson in Outing. lst
 ,ly A New Idea ia Two spruce looking girls stopped